Unity in no city!!!

United we stand, Divided we fall! Blessed would be the person who coined out this phrase. But, however great he might be, he was not far-sighted, not as much as the Indian politicians. Or was he not so power hungry as they are? The recent fuss over the Telangana issue has made me wonder and seriously cast doubt on our culture and heritage. Traditionally, we are known to be a peace loving civilization, so much so that it took nearly 200 years for us to achieve our freedom because of the same reason. We would condemn the atrocities done to the Indians in Australia but what about the ones done in India, to the Indians by their own brethren.



Albert Einstein, the scientist, got the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921 for his famous ‘Theory of relativity’. Instead he should have got the award for one of his lesser known phrases,” Two things are infinite, the universe and the human stupidity, and I am not sure about the first!” Do all these people burning the cities, giving dharnas and then ending in the jail really know what they are going to get even if their demands are agreed? No they do not, of course! Because if they knew it, they would not be doing it. They are the ones fighting and suffering for it, but there is no chance they are going to get even a single piece of the cake or a slice of the pizza! :P



If there is one country in the world with real pluralism in its culture, it sure is India. A person can be an Indian, a Rajasthani, a Marwaari, a Jain and a Baniya at the same time. (Yeahh, you guessed it right, that is me!) It is the various languages, cultures, food, dress, art, caste, religions and the incomes of Indian people that make it unique. And also, as marked by Shashi Tharoor too, ‘Whatever you say about India, the reverse is also true!’ We Indians have solved the biggest issues (getting our independence) with non-violence and have had thousands killed for making a mosque instead of a temple. We are home to the largest numbers of billionaires after USA and still 22% of our population lives on less than a dollar a day! We have lived together in harmony for centuries now, then why is it today that we all want to divide our country into numerous interdependent pieces?



Today, a separate Telangana is given, next is what? Bodoland, Gorkhaland, Vidarbha, Maru Pradesh and many more are to come, if only we blindly support the demands of the protesters. And it just not a division and a creation of a state, a whole judicial and legislative vehicle is to be created for a new state. Large infrastructure and facility demand is developed, which sucks up into the country’s much needed resources for the benefit of the few, who never fought, who have nothing to loose, who will not do anything for the people who fought.



So, till when is this supposed to go on? The cynics will say, never! The ruling party will say, ‘in the coming few years’ and the opposition will say, ‘only if the power shifts into our hands’. As for me, it is totally a matter of enlightenment. The faster it comes, so would be the change. People need to think of them as Indians first and then a Punjabi, Tamil or Gujrati. This is a war we Indians are waging against ourselves, wasting our resources on both sides. This is surely worse than the wars we have faced in our short, independent history, because in that case, we atleast knew who our enemies were, whom we have to defeat and what would be the consequences if we lost. It is high time we get up on our feet and realize that whoever wins in this battle, it is India that is going to lose.

JAAGO RE!!!


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